On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:56:09PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > I maintain libetpan package, which build-depends on libcurl4-gnutls-dev. > Resulting library package dependency is calculated using ${shlib:Depends}, > however libdev package dependency on libcurl4-gnutls-dev is manually > written in debian/control file. The build package dependency is valuable > since -lcurl is among 'libetpan-config --ldflags' output.
> I've got a wishlist report (#467297), where reporter asks to add > alternative dependency libcurl3-gnutls-dev for better backporting support. > While it is easy for build-dependency (just use libcurl4-gnutls-dev | > libcurl3-gnutls-dev), I see a problem here with libdev package dependency. > It should depend not on libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl3-gnutls-dev, but on > exact one that was actually used when building package. > How to handle this properly? Fix libetpan-config on Debian to not return libraries that are only related to static linking, and drop libcurl4-gnutls-dev to a Recommends? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]